September 11
2002

(SPOILER)Gimme five.
Entertainment Weekly sums up reasons why Buffy gets snubbed by the Emmy's. The writer of this piece closes off with his views on Season 7's opening episode:

"It's a corker, full of surprises, lighter in tone than last season's occasionally lugubrious one, and offering a perfect opportunity for new viewers, intimidated by the show's backstory, to climb aboard and find out why the rest of us love ''Buffy'' so much."